Post by Grubb.
Just entering the Troll Museum gives you a clue.
There are mountain trolls, and sea trolls, and forest trolls on display with their legends explained, and there is Yggdrasil, the mythological Nordic tree of life.
But the real giants inside are Ibsen and Grieg. In a room where I put on earphones and listened to soprano Marita Sølberg perform “Solveig’s Song”, there was an exhibit about Ibsen and Grieg and their collaboration in “Peer Gynt” the Norwegian fairy tale that Ibsen turned into a five-act play. I read about how Grieg wrote the “Morning Mood” piece for Peer Gynt and how it was originally entitled “Morning Mood In The Desert” to go with Peer traveling through the Sahara. Of course it occurred to me that the last trip we took where we were overpowered by the sublimity of our surroundings was in the Sahara. So are we haunting Peer, or is Peer haunting us? It gives new meaning to being part of a Peer group.
